Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-15

| subject contained In the honorable Third
Assistant Postmaster. Generals last an
nual report.
| A series OF resolutions wss also sdoDt
ed 1ndorsing the administration OF Presi
dent Cleveland, and expressing their ap
probation Of the Efforts Of Postmaster
General Villas and First Assistant Post
| master-General Stevenson to improve the
postal service.
HOME RULE FOR IRELAND.
WASHINGTON, Dec. IA The Irish mem.
oers OF Parliament, E ,monde and 0'Con.
nor, arrived here to-day and were given 8
reception tonight. The hsll of the temple
was brilliantly Illuminated and decorated
with American and Irish f,gs. A large
number OF Senators and Representatives
were present, among them Senators Sher-
man. Palmer and Hswley, Representatives
Collins, Bland, Herbert, Foran,
L.wler, O'Neill of Missouri, Wood
burne, Phelan, Grain, Parker, j. D. Tay-
Tor, and Brown OF Ohio, and
Fred Douglas. Iu the absence
of Senator ingalls,, who was to preside,
Senator Sherman was elected, amid great
cheering. Senator Sherman said in ap-
pearing here tonight he wss bound
to say that he WAS not
an Irishman, but his ancestors
had come to this country so many years
ago that 1t WAS immeteIial whether they
were Irish or not. He knew one
thing, he was an American ap-
lause] and as an American, feeling
himself free to speak not only of matters
nnnnoprinnv h,,L
as to the affairs Of friendly nations,
he took pleasure in saying he
believed he spoke the general voice of
the people of the United States in every
part OF the Union when he said to the dis
tinguished guests that the SYM
pathy OF America weAt forth
fully and heartily in the desire that
they might have home-rule in
Ireland to the full extent demanded by
Parnell and Gladstone. Applause He
did not claim any right to govern the
British empire or to advice anybody
in that great and powerful
nation how to govern. ALI he !could say
was that he hoped the voice Of Glad
stone, the greatest statesman of the
age, would induce the British
Parliament to grant home rule and that
the manly courage snd brave persistence
Of Mr.. Parnell might be sustained in his
Sickness by the growing hopes OF home
rule for Ireland.
Senator Ingalls, then made 8 brief and
telling speech,a and introduced Mr. O'Con-
nor, who spoke eloquently of the
wrongs endured DY Ireland dur
ing the 700 years Of En-
glish rule, and proceeded to draw
q vivid picture OF the oppression and
hardship to which the Irish people were
compelled to bow and detailed the de-
mands which the Home Rule party made
upon the British government. II allowed to
manage her own affairs Ireland would,
he said, in few years present
to the world the picture of 8
people united, peaceable and industrious
snd happy. The Democracy Of England,
Scotland and Wales were with her,
and only the Tory party opposed
That party was crumbling from
internal dissensions, and Ireland
would soon have her desire. They
had come here to thank America
for her past aid and ask for more until
the crisis now pending is passed.
Senator Hawley also spoke, expressing
sympathy for the Irish cause and earnest
hope that the people would succeed in
their efforts to obtain home rule.
Resolutions were adopted extending
hearty greeting to Messrs. O'Connor and
Els nonde, thanking Gladstone in behalf
IF the American people for his
course toward Ireland, pledging financial
sid to the Irish people, and sympathizing
also with English people, who can never
have good government while Ireland has
! bad government.
TEXAS PENSIONS.
Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-THE following
Texas pensions were issued to day f:
Eizs, widow Of Henry Donley, Paris
Mexican war, Louisa j., widow of John
NJ. Townes, Hopkins; Mexican war,
William Wooten, Fairfield; Samuel b.
Veatch, Brookland; Alexander Haw-
.horne, Austin; James W. Throckmorton,
Joseph z. Wood, Sweet
water; Samuel c. Jones, Moore Station.
POsTOFFICE INSPECTOR RESIGNS.
WASHINGTON, Dec. IA -McGhee Will
iams of Arkansas, postoffice inspector,
with headquarters at St. Louis, has re-
signed.